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Death the sweetest sleep, or, a sermon preach't on the funeral of Mr. William Hiett, late citizen of London by Tho. Lye ...
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Lye, Thomas, 1621-1684.
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Observation of Jerom an Antient Father and the Resolution of the 3d. Christus non ploravit Lazarum mortuum sed ad hujus vitae arumnas ploravit resuscitandum Toletan Council concerning Christs weeping over Lazarus Joh. 11.35 That it was not so much becaus he was dead as becaus he was to be raised up again to feel the burthens and afflictions of this Life Gods Jonahs find this Life to be a stormy passage A tempestuous Sea-Voiage wherein they meet with many Whales many Leviathans Death sets them safe on shore puts them into safe harbour whilst here the Archers sorely griev Gods Saints shoot at them hate them draw out their Swords after them strong Bulls of Bashan beset them round the Plowers plow upon their backs they make long their furrows But there the weary is at rest Job 3.17 There the wicked cease from troubling No need now to fear A Gardners Prison Bonners Stocks or Cole-house nor a flaming Smithfield Lucius to Urbicius I thank you with all my heart that by death will free me from wicked Governours Here Gods Peter's no more dread the Cross nor Paul's the Ax nor James's the Sword nor Gods Elijah's a cursed-painted Jezabels bloody threats In A Word the whol Army of Gods Noble Martyrs are here past all fear of halters Cyprian God be blessed for this Goal delivery racks wheels stakes gibbets the most exquisite Torments that either PAPISTS or DIVELS can invent or are ready to inflict 3. From Passions and inward perturbations griefs Anxietys Here in this Life Babylas Now will God wipe away all Tears the Believers pulse beats slow and faint his heart pants his eies moisten'd and his cheeks blubber'd with tears you may read the Anguish of his Soul in his Countenance But in Death every tear dried up in the eye wiped off the cheek All sorrow and sighing flown away Rev. 21.4 The Saints Baca is turned into A Berachah sighing into singing misery into mercy 4. Pic. Mirand Death is welcom not so much as an end of Troubl as of sin From sins iniquities corruptions Whilst here the poor sin-pester'd Saint cries out of the Law in his Members warring against the Law of his mind against the body of sin and death You may hear his out-cry as of a person on a Rack Rom. 7.23 24 But now he that is dead is freed from sin Ro. 6.7 1 Pet. 4.1 Not the least spot or wrinkle left in his Soul Eph. 5.27 Not one Agag spared alive Every Egyptian not sprawling but stark-dead upon the shore The end of a Saints Living is the Non ultra of a Saints sinning With this that good Martyr held up his head when he encouraged his fellow with telling him that my Lord of London he meant that BLOODY Butcher Bonner was sending of them there where they should sin no more 5. From Temptations assaults trialls combates Satans winnowing c. Not an Adam no not in the Paradice of the Church but hath an Eve in his bosom Chast Joseph attaqu'd by a Potiphars-Wife A Messenger now and then from the lowest pit to buffet us 2 Cor. 12.7 A damp arising from Satans deepest Mine to choak us Anakims To Wound Daughters of Heth to Troubl Daughters of Midian to Allure us Snares Ginns Traps Limetwiggs 1 Pet. 5.8 Satan going about like a roaring Lion seeking whom he may devour This world is the poor Saints Gymnasium Arena Wrestling place And Tho' It be the Saints Honour at length to Conquer yet It is and cannot but be the Saints Troubl thorn pain so long to Conflict But now Death puts the Saints into so peaceabl an Estate as that he is not only without foil but fighting Not only the Accuser but the Tempter of the Brethren is cast out Rev. 12.10 Thus we see The Paralel betwixt sleep and death with Respect to Rest Let us see next how they suite in 2. Resurrection or Awaking Natural Sleep is not perpetual We sleep and awake again Believers tho' they sleep they shall arise again as men awaken'd out of sleep This is expressed in the Words immediately following our Text. Our Friend Lazarus sleepeth but I go to awaken him out of sleep i. e. to rais him from the dead The Apostle Paul is much upon this Metaphor see 1 Cor. 15.18 20 51 52. Thy dead men shall live together with my dead body shall they arise Job 19.26 27. Although after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God c. Death may yea shall prevail over the whol outward Man Death spends both skin and reins swallows up both flesh and bones And yet for all this this Total Consumption of the Body of Man is no impediment no barr in the way of Faith to stop us from a firm Belief of our Resurrection As Death shall triumph over Jobs Body so Jobs Faith triumphs over Death He that believes in Christ yea tho he were dead tho' totally corcupted and consumed yet shall he live again John 11.25 I have done with the proof of our Point the Improvement follows Use 1. Of INFORMATION Is Natural Death a sleep and no more hence 't is easy To inferr not only the Truth of that great Articl of our Faith the Resurrection of the Body but the facility and easiness of Accomplishing it After Natural sleep men use to awake again So after Death the Bodies of men shall be awaked i. e. rais'd up out of their Graves to life at the last day And 'T is most just that those Bodies which hav been the Souls Copartners in doing good or evil should therefore participate in the reward and punishment which cannot be done without a Resurrection But the white I aim at here is the facility of the Accomplishing it How easily is a living man awaked out of a shallow slumber or deep sleep Much more easy with God by his Almighty power and voice To revive and rais the dead at the last day 1 Thes 4.15 16 17. Use 2. Of TERROUR to and mourning over unregenerate unbelieving impenitent ones living and dying in their sins and lusts Poor wretched Creatures 'T is Tru you must dy certainly and you may dy speedily but Know that your Death is but A sleep You must wake again and when you wake you will awake dead-sick Those Bodys of yours must hereafter be awaked and rais'd out of your Graves at the last day and united again To the Soul that both Souls and Bodies may be cast together into Hell Torments for ever Joh. 5.27 28. Mat. 25.33 Oh how well were it for such if their Souls and Bodies might utterly perish and be abolished by Death as the Bodies and Souls of Brute Beasts How happy is A dead Lion abov An ever-living-or-rather-an ever-dying damned-unbelieving Caitif Use 3. OF SUPPORT AND CONSOLATION TO SOUND Believers Precious Souls 1. You complain of sad and unpleasant lives of dark and gloomy daies of black and restless nights Cheer up